Welcome Amitabh Shrivastava of Refrigediro.org and Tinkrmind!
- Amitabh moved from Physics into Engineering. He did an internship at Brandeis for astophysics and radio astronomy and realized astrophysics mostly coding these days.
- Kit for teaching teachers in India
- There was a limited Electronics scene in India. Amitabh grew up in Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Manufacturing in India has been growing, including in the silicon space. Chris used to work at a place that had a CM in Bangalore.
- Gaming startup making tag games using LoRa
- XBee
- Logistics company that tracked 2 wheelers. Their breakout product was a laser scanner for packages.
- Amitabh went to ITP at NYU, which is a technology and art crossover program. Past guest of the show Matt Richardson also went there.
- Creative aspects vs technical aspects.
- Amitabh enjoyed consulting for other artist, much like past guests Mike Harrison and Todd Bailey discussed.
- Programmable Air is a kit that allows people to more easily build soft robots and use pumps.
- Chris and Amitabh met at Teardown 2019. That was also the event where Chris recorded with Joshua and Zach, before recording again this year.
- A "jammer gripper" is a soft robot that allows you to pick up arbitrarily shaped objects using friction.
- "Backpack inflatable car" from Otherlab
- Open Source Project
- Programmable Air was crowdfunded on Crowd Supply. As such, it's still available on Mouser.
- The valves in the kit were meant for keurig machines. Spec sheets are super basic for mechanical components.
- Chris saw Amitabh at Supercon 22 wearing a backpack refrigerator. It's called "Refrigediro"
- Amitabh gave a talk about the project at Hackaday Supercon 2022
- The source of the name is "Harry potter and the methods of rational thinking"
- Refrigeration is an old industry
- PV=nRT
- Kipp Bradford and Adam Savage video on building tiny refrigeration.
- Other uses for small scale refrigeration is vaccine storage, cold chain storage.
- Ammonia refrigeration allows you to keep things cold with a fire.
- Gradient window cooler is a heat pump with a cool form factor. Not shipping yet though?
- Modding an icemaker
- Follow Amitabh on Instagram or YouTube for his latest experiments and builds. Follow him most places as "Tinkrmind"
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